Talking Divorce (songs and more), with Lisa Loving

Podcasting of this type is an interesting, sometimes vulnerable space; on one end, it allows you more opportunities to 'be yourself', without the constraints of corporate instruction.  On another end, you don't want to divulge so much information about yourself that it ends up isolating and uninteresting.  When you think about it, this is not unlike the process of a songwriter. 

This delicate balance was explored on our latest episode, as jamilah (who at the time of recording was experiencing a mental health crisis) spoke with Lisa Loving, a fellow writer (who wrote the book Street Journalist: Understand & Report The News In Your Community) and long time friend.  As Lisa has experienced the end of a marriage, the premise of this episode was to connect her experiences with select songs from the Bad Religion (and Greg Graffin) catalog; but it ended up being a larger conversation about how capitalism (and all its appendages) pervades so many of our interactions and unconscious choices.  It was ultimately unexpected, but anyone who has heard this podcast knows this route shouldn't be a surprise. 

Surprise or not, it was something that took jamilah out of the head space that started the episode, and that is much appreciated. 

(Note: The episode was recorded on April 6, so there are some things discussed in the episode that have come to pass.  There are a series of events currently happening that may have been touched on, but we also did not foresee).

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